Bazen Peter Petrovich (Pierre-Dominique Bazaine)

in Russian, Pyotr Petrovich, engineer, scientist (1783 - 1838). He had been sent by Napoleon I, at the request of Alexander I, along with three other mathematicians, from Paris to St. Petersburg as the first pupil of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, for the formation of our Institute of Railway Engineers. There he read mathematics and was made director of the Institute. In 1830 he returned to his homeland. Compiled several courses, . printed in French and translated into Russian Ganeshinym his pupil: "The initial foundation of differential calculus" (French edition in 1817 and Russian in 1819), "The initial foundation of integral calculus" (French edition of 1825 and Russian in 1827), "The proof of the beginning of the speculative velocity, . considered as a basis of mechanics "(translated Zavadsky, . 1832).,